
Tag: analytics
Why a Universal Semantic Layer is the Key to Unlock Value from Your Data
A semantic layer is a way to represent data so that it can be easily understood by business users, making it easier for them to interpret and use it directly, without a dependence on data engineering teams. Wikipedia def Read more…
The Business Case for Privacy Enhancing Technologies
In a world that’s constantly hyping the next big thing, it’s natural to be wary when a family of technologies is described as transformational. This label has been recently associated with Privacy Enhancing Technolog Read more…
Snowflake Gives Everybody a Little Something at Summit
Whether you’re a data engineer building data pipelines, a data scientist creating AI models, or a CFO trying to minimize cloud spending, Snowflake gave you something today at its annual user conference in Las Vegas, Ne Read more…
Making Better Data-Informed Decisions to Navigate Disruptions
Unprecedented levels of disruption have significantly complicated business leaders’ efforts to make critical data-driven decisions to guide their organizations successfully into the future. To keep their analytic capab Read more…
Qlik Completes Acquisition of Talend
BI and analytics provider Qlik announced its intent to acquire Talend earlier this year, and now it has formally completed the deal, giving it an immediate boost in the data management department. Data sprawl, data qu Read more…
The Semantic Layer Architecture: Where Business Intelligence is Truly Heading
The rise of cloud computing, data mesh, and especially data lakehouses all reflect the massive efforts to adopt architectures that will keep pace with the exponential of data constantly growing. But the industry is st Read more…
What’s Moving the Analytics and BI Tool Business Now
While the addition of AI-powered insights to analytics and business intelligence (ABI) tools is certainly still occurring, a bigger trend currently is the addition of low-code and no-code automation capabilities to ABI t Read more…
Boosting Data Confidence with No-Code/Code-Friendly Platforms
Modern enterprises are on the hunt to drive transformation around the way they use data and strive to remain competitive in uncertain times. Added to this challenge is the fact that enterprises generate more data than ev Read more…
Which BI and Analytics Vendors Are Incorporating ChatGPT, and How
The generative AI revolution is upon us, and it’s having an impact across all of IT, including the business intelligence and analytics tools used by analysts and executives to glean insights out data. But BI and analyt Read more…
Rupert Is Closing the Analytics to Action Loop with $8M Seed Funding
The era of speculative analytics projects is over, according to Rupert, maker of an analytics distribution platform that has just raised $8 million in a seed funding round. Analytics tools are helping businesses uncov Read more…
Quantexa to Boost AI and Analytics Investment with Series E Round
Quantexa, a UK-based company that develops a decision intelligence platform designed to help banks, telecommunication providers, and government agencies uncover risks and opportunities hidden in their data, this week ann Read more…
Exasol Eyes Second Half of 2023 for Two Big Developments
In-memory analytics database developer Exasol has quietly made a name for itself among data warehouse users that need massive concurrency and sub-second response times for their SQL analytics operations. Now the German c Read more…
The Case for Incrementalism in AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to offer the promise for businesses to optimize efficiency and, through abilities to simultaneously evaluate large and disparate datasets, discover new opportunities. In today’s c Read more…
Datanova- the coolest data conference of the year
This event is for those who seek to not just ‘do data’ incrementally better, but differently. For the leaders who want to help their companies become truly data-driven. For the analyst in all of us that seeks sim Read more…
Are Databases Becoming Just Query Engines for Big Object Stores?
Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on optimizing their SQL q Read more…
AWS Seeks an End to ETL
Extract, transform, and load. It’s a simple and ubiquitous thing in IT. And yet everybody seems to hate it. The latest company to pile on to ETL is AWS, which declared an effort to end ETL yesterday at re:Invent. Ad Read more…
Microsoft Bolsters Azure Integration with SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft announced today. Read more…
How Snowplow Breaks Down Data Barriers
If you have suspicions about your data, you’re not alone. The AI and data analytics dreams of many a company have been broken by poor data management and defective ETL pipelines. But by enforcing data schema at the poi Read more…